1. Space Exploration Past, Present, Future

2. Space Exploration The Big Picture
Space exploration is still in infancy. Although we have learned a lot, we still have a lot of questions.
The cost of space exploration mandates that we work together with other countries.
Example: International Space Station (ISS)

3. NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Accomplishments:
First to land someone on the moon
Invented the space shuttle
Developed many products for space that we now use as everyday products
Example: Velcro

4. Space Exploration History
1926: Robert Goddard experiments with
liquid fueled rockets

5. Space Exploration History
The space age began on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth.
The Soviets also achieved the first piloted space flight on April 12, 1961.
The first cosmonaut was Yuri Gagarin. He orbited Earth in a ship named Vostok.

6. Early Space Exploration
1961
Alan Shepard - 1st American in space.
1962
John Glenn - 1st American to orbit the Earth.

7. Let’s Go to the Moon
1961: Project Mercury starts US efforts to reach the Moon

8. Let’s Go to the Moon
: Project Gemini practices skills need on the Moon.

9. Let’s Go to the Moon
1969: Apollo 11 lands on the moon; Neil Armstrong becomes first person to walk on the moon

10. Skylab
1973: First US space station named Skylab is launched

11. Space Shuttles A space shuttle is a reusable space craft.
First used in 1981.
Able to land on an ordinary airfield.
Two shuttle tragedies in 1987 and 2003.
Shuttles replaced the previous method of space flight – Rockets and capsules.

12. Satelites 1977: Voyager 1 to Space 1975: Viking 1 to Mars
1962: Mariner 2 to Venus
1989: Galileo to Jupiter
1990: Hubble Space Telescope launched